(Nanowerk News) Artificial helical microswimmers with shape-morphing capabilities and adaptive locomotion are promising for precision medicine and noninvasive surgery. However, current fabrication ...

New insights into how the cancer-causing stomach bacterium keeps its shape could point the way for future, more-specialized antibiotics One of H. pylori’s defining characteristics is right there in ...

PHILADELPHIA – Something about nature loves a helix, the ubiquitous spiral shape taken on by DNA and many other molecules found in the cells of living creatures. The shape is so useful that, while ...

The helix is a popular shape in engineering. It is used in our screws to ensure a strong hold, in our springs to store mechanical energy, even in our pastas to capture the right amount of sauce. It is ...

Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the molecular level, of DNA, the very blueprint of life itself. Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the ...

(Nanowerk News) Clinical gene therapy may be one step closer, thanks to a new twist on an old class of molecules. A group of University of Illinois researchers, led by professors Jianjun Cheng andFei ...

Schematic illustration of highly efficient fabrication of stimuli-responsive microhelix based on the rotary holographic processing method. The adaptive locomotion of shape-morphing helical ...

Microorganisms, such as bacteria and sperm, can undergo adaptive shape morphing to optimize their locomotion mechanisms in the environment, which enables them to navigate complex barriers and improve ...